Import-Export - A journey into the German-Turkish past

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Movie
Original title Import-Export - A journey into the German-Turkish past
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005/2006
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Eren Önsöz
script Eren Önsöz
production Eren Önsöz
music Joachim Becker
camera Holger Hahn , Eren Önsöz
cut Inge Kaiser , Eren Önsöz , Zuhar Er

Import-Export - A Journey into the German-Turkish Past is a German documentary film by Eren Önsöz that focuses on German-Turkish relations from the beginning to the present.

General information

The film is the director's graduation film at the Art Academy for Media Cologne. The documentary road movie shows German-Turkish encounters from 500 years in an entertaining way. It was funded by the Filmstiftung NRW . Other donors were context, the Society for the Promotion of Young Journalists , Turkish Airlines , Öger Tours , Ford and Hilton Ankara . Import-Export was premiered at the 27th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, shown at the Turkish Film Days in Munich and the Munich Forum Goethe-Institut in 2006, and at the PASO Student Film Festival at the University of Bilkent in 2007. In October 2007 the film was also broadcast on WDR television .

Content

Import-Export does not focus on immigration from Turkey to the Federal Republic of Germany in the last few decades, but rather takes it as the starting point when asked why Germans have the image of Turks even after decades of living together in Germany and centuries of relationships are so reduced. The following reports, for example, about Christianized booty Turks , about the fear of the Turks anchored in the “collective consciousness of the Germans” to this day , which is partly still manifested in children's books that have been published in recent years, but also episodes like the German-Turkish one Brotherhood of Arms during the First World War, which is less remembered today. Various German place and street names are explained in which the word Turk occurs and terms such as the carnival call Türken Hopp , which was also coined in Germany long before the Turkish labor migration to Europe. With the publicist Götz Aly , the film tracks down a direct descendant of a Chamberlain who was in the service of Sanssouci Palace centuries ago . It also tells the story of the only Turkish shoemaker in the GDR, and the local researcher Gültekin Emre , who has specifically researched the centuries-long history of the Turks on the Spree, takes the author to historical places where Germans and Turks meet. In Turkey, the film traces the traces of German exiles between 1933 and 1945 , shows, for example, the Turkish parliament built by German architects and Germans who grew up in Turkey, such as Edzard Reuter and the literary translator Cornelius Bischoff , who still speak Turkish accent-free and Turkey alongside See Germany as their home. Most recently, modern German migrant workers in Turkey - most prominent Christoph Daum - will be shown. The latter reports on stones that the German state has put in his way when accepting Turkish citizenship . In the film are also Asaf Pekdeğer , whose family has always lived for generations back in Germany, and Yaşar Kemal to see.

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